[Haskell-cafe] Current heap size and other runtime statistics -- API for accessing in GHC?

[Don Stewart]

I'd like a proper FFI binding for getting at Stats.c dynamically. So I
can write programs that determine their own stats about the GC and so
on.

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Ryan Newton <rrnewton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi cafe,
> The rtsopts (-s etc) can provide some nice debugging information regarding
> memory management.  And System.Mem.performGC can initiate garbage
> collection.  But are there APIs for querying the current state of the heap?
>  I've googled and come up dry.
> In this case I'm running benchmarks and for the sake of fair comparison I
> want to make sure that everything from a previous run is cleaned up before
> the next run.
> Thanks,
>   -Ryan
>
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